Students didn’t have time to sleep Saturday night at the Sleep Out for the Homeless event on Turlington Plaza.
A former senator who planned to attend tonight’s campus health care discussion took a plane to Haiti instead.
Some volunteers chose to pick up paintbrushes and Lysol wipes instead of hitting the snooze button Monday morning.
I was flipping through some of last week’s articles and took issue with some of the articles you chose to run. First off, in “Chris Brown deserves a second chance,” Michelle Profis talks about still listening to Chris Brown’s music. How is this news? Obviously you noticed that this article would leave some people questioning the writer’s real attitude toward domestic violence because you put a disclaimer on it. Why not just pull the whole article? The author denies condoning domestic violence vehemently but then backtracks by saying just because he’s young and “talented” we should throw more money at him. The writer shows she doesn’t understand the seriousness of the crime by starting the article off by calling it “classic celebrity catastrophe,” as if it were just a wardrobe malfunction. It’s bad enough that celebrities routinely get off lightly for what would be heinous crimes if committed by you or me, but when you publish these kinds of opinions as mainstream thought, you only further the mentality that we accept this kind of behavior.
I was reading Thursday’s Alligator when I came across an article about revenge cheating. As I was reading the article, I read a sentence that claimed most people will be cheated on unless they are all-knowing or “one of those weirdos” who’s sober all the time. I find it ridiculous and irresponsible that a college newspaper, read by thousands of binge-drinking and drug-abusing students, would go as far as to label people who refrain from drugs and alcohol as “weirdos.” You are doing a disservice to our community and school by advocating the use of drugs through the condemnation of people choosing to remain abstinent. The Alligator has a moral and social responsibility to try and encourage a safe and healthy environment, not to reinforce the idea that everyone uses drugs and alcohol and those who don’t are “weirdos.” I am afraid that comments like this provide the acceptance and social proof necessary to foster unhealthy behaviors like drug and alcohol abuse. As a school and community, we should try to avoid the negative stigma associated with being one of the top five party schools in the country each year. We should start by looking at our attitudes and beliefs toward drugs and alcohol, and, at the very least, we shouldn’t promote drug use and abuse by condemning those who choose not to use drugs. I’m ashamed this statement was written, approved by the editors and printed for the entire community and Student Body to read. Hopefully, you will be more careful in the future.
If you listen to geologists, they will tell you the reason the massive earthquake occurred in Haiti last week had to do with seismic activity, fault lines and tectonic plates. At first glance, it’s a believable explanation. But the Rev. Pat Robertson proposes another answer that deserves consideration. Not consideration of its validity but rather consideration as to why in the world he would say such a thing.
My colleagues at the Alligator, Amelia Harnish and Jared Misner, wrote a defense — or at least a justification — of infidelity in their Jan. 14 Avenue column at www.bit.ly/secretscrewing.
UF student David Feinstein did a little more than work out Saturday night when he went to the gym.
An ABC News investigation, which discovered a supplier of high-powered rifles to the U.S. military has been printing coded Bible verses on the weapons, has the Editorial Board wondering what’s up with secret evangelism.
A story that ran in the Dec. 9 issue of the Alligator offered a look at Gainesville’s yogurt industry but excluded TCBY, which has three Gainesville locations.
Getro Naissance spent his holiday weekend bandaging wounds and lifting rubble off dead bodies in Haiti.
Ben Foster stars as Staff Sgt. Will Montgomery whose responsibility is to notify dead soldiers’ next of kin of their loss.
The band is from Raleigh, N.C., and is known for its incessant work ethic and country-rock hybrid.
What is the best time to go to the gym on campus? Should I bring a workout buddy and if so how many? Will a diet help me lose weight and gain muscle? Find the answer to all these questions and more in the new fitness and health blog.
Trumae Lucas came off a cold bench and provided the spark Florida needed in a 55-52 Southeastern Conference win on the road at Mississippi State on Sunday.
Because of the offseason layoff, a team’s opening meet of the indoor track and field season typically doesn’t foster record-setting performances. But UF shot putter Mariam Kevkhishvilli is far from a typical athlete.
The men’s squad of eight swimmers and one diver representing the Gators at the 2010 SMU Classic returned home today with a fourth-place finish following the two-day meet in Dallas, Texas.
After a rocky start to the Southeastern Conference season, Florida finally got the win it needed.
The men’s swim and dive team came into the FAU dual meet at the O’Connell Center Natatorium today missing eight of its best swimmers and its best diver.
It took Angie Bjorklund nearly 40 minutes to score eight points, half her season average.
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